Collaborate Disseminate
With a lot of us spending more time at home these days, home improvement has continued to be a booming market. Now, one of the big players in that space — ServiceTitan, which builds software that today is used by over 100,000 contractors to manage their work — is getting a little bigger. The company […] Continue reading ServiceTitan acquires Aspire to move into landscaping, raises $200M at a $9.5B valuation
Con el reciente auge de la transformación digital, las compañías líderes están observando las necesidades de los clientes y anticipándose al próximo perfil de los consumidores. ¿Las compras online seguirán liderando el mercado después del fin de la pa… Continue reading ‘Phygital’: la experiencia de compra evoluciona
Retailers, shoppers and threat actors alike are preparing for the big day: Amazon Prime Day, when there are retail sales opportunities to be had as retailers run their own sale event to compete with, or leverage the public visibility of the day. There … Continue reading Enabling Retail Deals and Repelling the “Steals”
On the heels of acquiring sales tax specialist TaxJar in April, today Stripe is making another big move in the area of tax. The $95 billion payments behemoth is launching a new product called Stripe Tax, which will provide automatic, updated sales tax calculations (covering sales tax, VAT, and GST) and related accounting services to […] Continue reading Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries
With more people than ever before going online to pay for things and pay each other, startups that are building the infrastructure that enables these actions continue to get a lot of attention. In the latest development, Paysend, a fintech that has built a mobile-based payments platform — which currently offers international money transfers, global […] Continue reading UK’s Paysend raises $125M at a $700M+ valuation to expand its all-in-one payments platform
E-commerce is on the rise, but that also means the risk, and occurrence, of e-commerce fraud is, too. Now, Forter, one of the startups building a business to tackle that malicious activity, has closed $300 million in funding — a sign both of the size of the issue, and its success in tackling it to […] Continue reading Forter raises $300M on a $3B valuation to combat e-commerce fraud
E-commerce is on the rise, but that also means the risk, and occurrence, of e-commerce fraud is, too. Now, Forter, one of the startups building a business to tackle that malicious activity, has closed $300 million in funding — a sign both of the size of the issue, and its success in tackling it to […] Continue reading Forter raises $300M on a $3B valuation to combat e-commerce fraud
On the heels of expanding its marketing call analytics platform last year to provide more insights to help those in sales, e-commerce and customer experience, Invoca is making its first acquisition to widen the net of companies that it targets. The company has acquired DialogTech, a startup that builds tools for marketers to analyze inbound […] Continue reading Invoca acquires DialogTech for $100M to expand its conversational intelligence tools
As businesses continue to adopt new digital tools to get their names out into the world, a startup that’s built a sales and marketing platform specifically for small and medium businesses is announcing a big round of funding. ActiveCampaign, which has built what it describes as a “customer experience automation” platform — providing a way […] Continue reading ActiveCampaign raises $240M at a $3B valuation as marketing and sales automation come into focus for SMBs
The office shut-down at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic last year spurred huge investment in digital transformation and a wave of tech companies helping with that, but there were some distinct losers in the shift, too — specifically those whose business models were predicated on serving the very offices that disappeared overnight. Today, one […] Continue reading SnackMagic picks up $15M to expand from build-your-own snack boxes into a wider gifting marketplace